Funding Opportunities: External Funding Agencies
Federal, state and private sources—including corporations, industries and nonprofits—fund extramural projects. Use the links below to skip the search engines and connect directly with the agency that may best fit your project. Please contact Sponsored Programs if you need assistance in your search.
Defense and National Security
- Department of Defense (DOD)
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- National Security Agency (NSA)
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- Homeland Security
- Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Environment & Natural Resources
- Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Fish and Wildlife Services (FWS)
- Forest Service (FS)
- National Park Service (NPS)
Health & Biomedical Research
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Texas Department of Health and Human Services
- Texas Health & Human Services Commission
- Texas Department of State Health Services
- Texas Department of Assistive & Rehabilitative Services
- Welch Foundation
Humanities, Arts & Education
- National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
- Department of Education (DOED)
- Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
- Texas Commission on the Arts
- Texas State Library & Archives Commission
- Humanities Texas
- Spencer Foundation
Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM)
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Forest Service (FS)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Texas Space Grant Consortium
- National Space Grant Foundation
- Human Frontier Science Program
- Welch Foundation
- Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Social Sciences, Policy & Community Development
- Department of Justice (DOJ)
- Department of State (DOS)
- AmeriCorps
- Texas Department of Family & Protective Services
- The Grantmanship Center – Top Grantmaking Foundations in Texas
- The Grantmanship Center – Community Foundations in Texas
- The Grantmanship Center – Corporate Giving Programs in Texas
- Research Research Ltd